356 pages ; 21 cm

One of the founders of cognitive therapy writes a clear, comprehensive guide to the basis of emotional disturbance and highlights such important concepts as learning the meaning of hidden messages, listening to automatic thoughts, the role of sadness, anger and anxiety, understanding and overcoming phobias and depression, and applying the cognitive system of therapy to specific problems

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-348)-and indexes

Common sense and beyond -- Tapping the internal communications -- Meaning and emotions -- Cognitive content of the emotional disorders -- Paradoxes of depression -- Alarm is worse than the fire: anxiety neurosis -- Afraid but not afraid: phobias and obsessions -- Mind over body: psychosomatic disorders and hysteria -- Principles of cognitive therapy -- Techniques of cognitive therapy -- Cognitive therapy of depression -- Status of cognitive therapy

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